Fred Entertainment (formerly Movie Poop Shoot and later Quick Stop Entertainment) is a pop-culture website. The site was founded as Movie Poop Shoot by director Kevin Smith to promote the 2001 movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. The site served as the launching pad for SModcast, Smith's popular comedy podcast. In early 2010, Smith released control of the site over to editor Ken Esteban Plume, who re-branded the site as Fred Entertainment.

Quick Stop Entertainment became Fred Entertainment on January 1, 2010. It was taken over and is now owned by Ken Plume, former editor of Quick Stop Entertainment.

The site began producing editorial content on June 17, 2002 under editor Chris Ryall. Ryall ran the website for four years until 2005, when he left for IDW Publishing. In May 2006, the site was named Quick Stop Entertainment after the hiring of new editor Ken Plume, one of the founding members of IGN FilmForce.

The site's staff also makes appearances at fan-conventions, and in 2008 hosted a panel at Dragon Con, in Atlanta, Georgia in 2008 which featured the members of Snydecast and Cabin Fever.[3] Quick Stop also co-hosts the Gonzo Film Festival (founded by Ken Plume and Widgett Walls in 2003) with needcoffee.com on the Saturday of the event.[4]

In 2008, Ken Plume created the online songwriting contest, "The Masters of Song Fu."[5] The contest is described as a songwriting version of Iron Chef, the competitors are presented with a very specific songwriting challenge. They are given one week to complete their songs - however they see fit, within the parameters set forth - after which time the entries are voted on by the public. After three preliminary rounds, the challenger who has received the most votes goes head to head against one of the "Masters of Song Fu" in a single song battle. This song is also voted on by the public and the winner is crowned the "Master of Song Fu!" Masters of Song Fu is now a regular feature of ASiteCalledFRED.com.

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Kenneth Plume
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Kenneth Plumey Plume is an American author, broadcaster, film producer and owner of Fred Entertainment. Plume wrote the book Theres a Zombie in My Treehouse. the book was announced at the Film Fest and on the Apocalypse Rising track at DragonCon in 2008. The book was paid by Plume to be published by Lulu Inc. the same year, the book details the story of a boy named Johnny who finds a zombie living in his backyard tree house and does not know what to do. Plume runs Fred Entertainment, where he hosts the interview series A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume and he also produced Kevin Smith and Scott Mosiers SModcast and co-hosts both the Ken P. D. Plume has conducted many in depth both in print and in various audio forms. Plume has also conducted print interviews for IGN with subjects such as Ian McKellen, Brian Henson, kenneth Plume acted as producer on the film Milius. Milius is a documentary is about director and screenwriter John Milius, the film was screened on March 9,2013 at the SXSW Film Festival. In addition to the podcasts on his site, Plume produces the SModimations cartoon series based on Kevin Smiths SModcast, Red Nose Net, while not affiliated directly with Comic Relief, has hosted 24-hour marathon broadcasts with all donations made directly to Comic Relief. Plume was featured in the Jonathan Coulton and Paul and Storm written Red Nose charity single Some Kind of Charity, Plume also provided voices on the second season finale of The Venture Bros. Plume was one of 52 people chosen for Len Peraltas art project Geek a Week along with such as Weird Al Yankovic. He was nominated for a Shorty Award in 2010, Plume currently resides in North Carolina. He often shares pictures of his daily walks with his Twitter followers, over the course of 2012 and 2013, Plume has lost over 150 pounds. Kenneth Plume at the Internet Movie Database

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Alexa Internet
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Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based company that provides commercial web traffic data and analytics. It is an owned subsidiary of Amazon. com. Founded as an independent company in 1996, Alexa was acquired by Amazon in 1999 and its toolbar collects data on browsing behavior and transmits them to the Alexa website, where they are stored and analyzed. This is the basis for the web traffic reporting. According to its website, Alexa provides traffic data, global rankings, as of 2015, its website has been visited by over 6.5 million people monthly. Alexa Internet was founded in April 1996 by American web entrepreneurs Brewster Kahle, Alexa initially offered a toolbar that gave Internet users suggestions on where to go next, based on the traffic patterns of its user community. The company also offered context for each site visited, to whom it was registered, how many pages it had, how other sites pointed to it. Alexas operations grew to include archiving of web pages as they are crawled and this database served as the basis for the creation of the Internet Archive accessible through the Wayback Machine. In 1998, the company donated a copy of the archive, Alexa continues to supply the Internet Archive with Web crawls. In 1999, as the company moved away from its vision of providing an intelligent search engine. Alexa began a partnership with Google in early 2002, and with the web directory DMOZ in January 2003, in May 2006, replaced Google with Bing as a provider of search results. In December 2006, Amazon released Alexa Image Search, built in-house, it was the first major application built on the companys Web platform. In December 2005, Alexa opened its extensive search index and Web-crawling facilities to third-party programs through a set of Web services. These could be used, for instance, to construct vertical search engines that could run on Alexas own servers or elsewhere. In May 2007, Alexa changed their API to limit comparisons to three websites, reduce the size of embedded graphs in Flash, and add mandatory embedded BritePic advertisements. In April 2007, the company filed a lawsuit, Alexa v. Hornbaker, in the lawsuit, Alexa alleged that Ron Hornbaker was stealing traffic graphs for profit, and that the primary purpose of his site was to display graphs that were generated by Alexas servers. Hornbaker removed the term Alexa from his name on March 19,2007. Thereafter, Alexa became a purely analytics-focused company, on March 31,2009, Alexa launched a major website redesign

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Kevin Smith
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Kevin Patrick Smith is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, public speaker, comic book writer, author, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the comedy film Clerks, which he wrote, directed, co-produced. Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in Smiths follow-up films Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back which were set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. Smith also directed and produced such as the buddy cop action comedy Cop Out, the horror film Red State, and the horror comedy Tusk. Smith is the owner of Jay and Silent Bobs Secret Stash and he also hosts the movie-review television show Spoilers. As a podcaster, Smith co-hosts several shows on his own SModcast Podcast Network, including SModcast, Fatman on Batman, Smith is well known for participating in long, humorous Q&A sessions that are often filmed for DVD release, beginning with An Evening with Kevin Smith. Kevin Smith was born on August 2,1970 in Red Bank, New Jersey, the son of Grace, a homemaker, and Donald E. Smith and he has an older sister, Virginia, and an older brother, Donald Smith, Jr. He was raised in a Catholic household, in the nearby clamming town of Highlands, as a child, Smiths days were scheduled around Donalds late shifts at the post office. Donald grew to despise his job, which greatly influenced Smith, Smith vowed never to work at something that he did not enjoy. Smith later attended Henry Hudson Regional High School, where as a B and C student, he would videotape school basketball games, an overweight teen, he developed into a comedic observer of life in order to successfully socialize with friends and girls. After high school, Smith attended the New School in New York, but did not graduate On his 21st birthday, Smith went to see Richard Linklaters comedy Slacker. Smith relates, It was the movie that got me off my ass, it was the movie that lit a fire under me, and I had never seen a movie like that before ever in my life. To finance the film, Smith maxed out more than a credit cards and sold his much-treasured comic book collection. He cast friends and acquaintances in the major parts. Clerks was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994, where it won the Filmmakers Trophy, at a restaurant following the screening, Miramax executive Harvey Weinstein invited Smith to join him at his table, where he offered to buy the movie. In May 1994, it went to the Cannes International Film Festival, released in October 1994 in two cities, the film went on to play in 50 markets, never playing on more than fifty screens at any given time. Despite the limited release, it was a critical and financial success, initially, the film received an NC-17 rating from the MPAA, solely for the sexually graphic language. Smiths second film, Mallrats, which marked Jason Lees debut as a leading man and it received a critical drubbing and earned merely $2.2 million at the box office, despite playing on more than 500 screens

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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
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It focuses on the two eponymous characters, played respectively by Jason Mewes and Smith. The film features a number of cameo appearances by famous actors and directors. The film was a commercial success, grossing $33.8 million worldwide from a $22 million budget. Five years later and following the failure of Jersey Girl, Smith reconsidered and decided to continue the series with Clerks II, resurrecting Jay. Smith announced in February 2017 that he was writing a sequel called Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, in response, the two sue Holden McNeil, the co-writer of Bluntman and Chronic for the royalties of the film. However, Holden tells Jay and Silent Bob that he sold his part of the creative and publishing rights of the comic over to his former friend Banky Edwards. On the way, they befriend an animal group, consisting of four women, Justice, Sissy, Missy, and Chrissy, and one man, Brent. It is revealed that the organization is a front, Brent is a patsy, Jay tricks Brent and throws him out of the van in order to get closer to Justice, with whom he is smitten. Justice, who becomes close to Jay and Silent Bob, reluctantly accepts the two as the new patsies, while the girls are robbing the diamond depository they accidentally set off the alarm, prompting them to break the glass and steal the diamonds. While this is going on Jay and Silent Bob free the animals and they escape outside to see the police arriving and the van exploding, which they believe has killed the girls. Jay then takes the orangutan with him as a memorial to Justice, quickly afterwards, Federal Wildlife Marshal Willenholly shows up at the scene. Blinded to the diamond heist, he claims to have jurisdiction because of the number of animals that escaped. He learns that all the animals have been recovered except for the orangutan, the officers then find and watch footage of a video Sissy recorded of Jay making remarks about the clit, claiming to be the Clit commander. The literature accompanying the tape says that Clit is an acronym for Coalition for the Liberation of Itinerant Tree-Dwellers, Willenholly blindly finds this as an act of terrorism and calls for police support to hunt down what he considered the two most dangerous men on the planet. Willenholly, thinking about the repercussions of arresting a gay couple, decides to let them leave. When they jump into a system, only Willenholly himself follows them while the other police officers, led by the Sheriff, leave him. Having escaped the law, Jay and Silent Bob once again return to their quest to reach Hollywood, only to have Suzanne taken by a Hollywood animal acting agency car. Now on a quest to rescue Suzanne and clear their names, Justice watches the news and takes the diamonds to Hollywood to set things right

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SModcast
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SModcast is a weekly podcast featuring filmmaker Kevin Smith and his long-time producing partner Scott Mosier, although guests are occasionally featured. Released each Sunday night/Monday morning, the episodes are generally one hour in length and feature Smith and Mosier discussing current events, the name was derived from taking the first letters of Smith and Mosier and replacing the P in podcast. The podcast was originally distributed through Smiths entertainment website Quick Stop Entertainment, on January 1,2010, the host site was sold, the SModcasts were removed and a dedicated site was started. In addition, the delay for iTunes subscribers was dropped starting with SModcast 101. In September 2009, a book of Smiths favorite SModcasts called Shootin the Sh*t with Kevin Smith was released, the podcast has been nominated for several awards, and has gained a great deal of recognition from various sources. In 2007, the podcast was named one of the best new podcasts by iTunes, in 2010, several of the podcasts were placed upon iTunes Best Podcasts of 2010 list which included, Jay & Silent Bob Get Old, Tell Em Steve-Dave. Hollywood Babble-On, and Highlands, A Peephole History

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Ain't It Cool News
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Aint It Cool News was launched in 1996, and its name is attributed to a quote from John Travoltas character in the film Broken Arrow. Knowles began surfing the Internet while recovering from an accident in 1994. He spent a lot of time in newsgroups exchanging gossip and rumors about upcoming films, a principal offering was Knowless colorful movie reviews, but the primary distinction from other sites was the insider news articles. The website garnered national attention in 1997 with the release of Batman & Robin, Knowles posted several negative reviews from preview screenings. When the film performed poorly at the box office, studio executives complained that it had been sabotaged by the leaks to the Internet, however, negative reviews from other, more traditional media confirmed what Knowles had posted. From there, the sites popularity rapidly expanded, national magazines such as People and Newsweek called for interviews with Knowles. The site was parodied in the film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back when the characters look at the Movie Poop Shoot site. That site was created at MoviePoopShoot. com as part of the films publicity, however, after the release of Clerks II, the site was shut down. Occasionally, filmmakers interact with fans on the site, sylvester Stallone answered numerous questions from fans in the sites message boards while publicizing the release of Rocky Balboa as well as The Expendables. Bruce Willis also posted on the website briefly to promote his film Live Free or Die Hard, on April 5,2012, the first episode of Aint It Cool with Harry Knowles was posted on YouTube. This scripted film news show, presented by Harry Knowles, is intended to translate the world of Aint It Cool News to a different medium. According to an April 5,2013 article in The Hollywood Reporter, however, by 2013, traffic had dwindled and ad revenue had dropped to the low six figures. The Hollywood Reporter also noted that Knowles owed $300,000 in back taxes to the U. S. Futrelle, Web of gossip, The Internet is creating its own stars in the realm of dishing dirt. Sites turn you into a Hollywood insider, official website A podcast interview with Harry Knowles

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Chris Ryall
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Christopher Chris Ryall is best known as the Chief Creative Officer and Editor-in-Chief of IDW Publishing, and as a writer in the comic book industry. In 2002, Ryall was hired by filmmaker Kevin Smith to run the entertainment-based MoviePoopShoot. com, the site originally appeared in Smiths movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, as a parody site. Ryall, along with Web designer Ming Chen, news writer/editor Scott Tipton and many columnists and cartoonists. Ryall wrote multiple weekly columns for the Web site, in addition to serving as the sites Editor-in-Chief, One Hand Clapping, TV Recommendations, A Night Out, TV Pilot Reviews, Ryall helmed the site even after joining IDW in mid-2004. He departed the site altogether in January 2006, on June 21,2004, Ryall joined San Diego-based comic-book publisher IDW Publishing as the companys second Editor-in-Chief. Doomed, and writing stories for the magazines four issues, also. He adapted the epic Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show with Rodriguez illustrating all 12 issues, Ryall more recently adapted the Stephen King/Joe Hill tribute to Richard Matheson, Throttle with artist Nelson Daniel and Mathesons own Duel in a book called Road Rage. Ryall spearheaded an inter-company crossover involving Mars Attacks and numerous IDW properties, in 2014, Ryall and Sam Kieth again partnered to launch a 4-issue Mars Attacks series, First Born. Comic series he has created include Zombies vs. Robots both co-created with artist Ashley Wood, Groom Lake, The Colonized with artist Drew Moss, in February 2006, IDW promoted Ryall to Publisher. In 2009, Ryall and co-writer Scott Tipton released the prose primer on the book industry, Comic Books 101. Independent of IDW Publishing, Ryall published Frank Frazetta’s Neanderthal with Jay Fotos and Tim Vigil and he also published a short comic-book story with artist Drew Moss, High Ball on the Low Road, in the Image Comics anthology Outlaw Western, Vol.3. Outlaw Western was nominated for a 2014 Eisner Award for Best Anthology, Ryall created the first inter-company crossover for IDW in 2011, Infestation, which paired the Transformers, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, and G. I. Joe in an adventure with Ryalls own Zombies vs Robots and he also directly oversaw 2012s Mars Attacks IDW event, and wrote two of the issues, Mars Attacks Kiss, and Mars Attacks Zombies vs Robots. His 2013-2014 work includes The Colonized, co-created with artist Drew Moss, The Hollows, co-created with artist Sam Kieth, all three series were published in 2013. In 2014, Ryall and Kieth paired up again for Mars Attacks, is There a Steve Jobs in the Comic Book Industry

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IDW Publishing
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IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books, graphic novels, art books and comic strip collections. The company was founded as the division of Idea and Design Works. The company is perhaps best known for its comic book adaptations of movies. In 2000, Idea and Design Works formed its publishing division, IDW Publishing and in 2007, Two of the original founders, Adams and Robbins, still actively manage the company, which has grown into a fully staffed publishing company. In 2007, IDT Corporation purchased a majority interest in IDW, in 2009, IDT created CTM Media Holdings via a tax-free spin-off. This new company, later renamed IDW Media Holdings, consists of the majority interest in IDW, IDW Publishings second title, Popbot, won two Gold Spectrum Awards. IDW Publishing also publishes comics based on the TV franchises Star Trek, the company has also had success with comic license from toy company Hasbro brands, The Transformers, G. I. Joe, My Little Pony and Jem, Transformers has had as many as five different titles running concurrently. An additional six-part limited series titled Doctor Who, The Forgotten started in mid-2008 by Tony Lee and Pia Guerra, as well as a series of monthly one-shot, self-contained stories. July 2009 saw the beginning of Doctor Who, a series featuring the Tenth Doctor, written by Tony Lee. In 2010, IDW Publishing released the sequel to Michael San Giacomos Phantom Jack Image Comics series with Phantom Jack, the graphic novel is notable because it features the death of the main character, a reporter who can turn invisible. IDW Publishing formed an imprint with EA Games in late 2009, called EA Comics, to focus on adaptations of the video games, with initial titles including Army of Two. Code Word, Geronimo reached #22 on Diamond Comics top 100 list its first month after release, in March 2012 IDW Publishing announced it would release new comics based on Judge Dredd and The Crow. Also in 2012, Hasbro licensed the use of My Little Pony, in February 2013, IDW Publishing announced a partnership with Cartoon Network to publish comics based on the networks television series and reprint older Cartoon Network comics. On January 6,2015, IDW Publishing announced it had acquired Top Shelf Productions. I, joe comics license in May 2008 and released three new series under editor Andy Schmidt, from writers such as Chuck Dixon, Larry Hama and Christos Gage. Other comics were released in time to tie-in with the summer 2009 G. I, in March 2009, IDW Publishing forged an agreement with Mike Golds Comicmix. com to publish print versions of Comicmixs online comic books. The agreement stipulates Comicmix must provide two comic books a month to IDW Publishing to publish, as well as graphic novels, the books are published with both the IDW Publishing and Comicmix. com logos on the covers. A collection of Mundens Bar stories original to Comicmixs website is also forthcoming, in 2004,2005 and 2006 IDW Publishing was named Publisher of the Year by Diamond Comic Distributors

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IGN Film
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The website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson and launched on September 29,1996. It focuses on games, films, television, comics, technology, the company is located in San Franciscos SOMA district in California, United States. Originally a network of websites, IGN is now distributed on mobile platforms, console programs on the Xbox and PlayStation, FireTV, Roku, and via YouTube, Twitch, Hulu. IGN was sold to publishing company Ziff Davis in February 2013 and now operates as a J2 Global subsidiary. com, PSXPower, Saturnworld, Next-Generation. com and Ultra Game Players Online. Imagine expanded on its owned-and-operated websites by creating a network that included a number of independent fansites such as PSX Nation. com, Sega-Saturn. com, Game Sages. In 1998, the network launched a new homepage that consolidated the individual sites as system channels under the IGN brand, the homepage exposed content from more than 30 different channels. Next-Generation and Ultra Game Players Online were not part of this consolidation, dissolved with the cancellation of the magazine, and Next-Generation was put on hold when Imagine decided to concentrate on launching the short-lived Daily Radar brand. In February 1999, Imagine Media incorporated a spin-off that included IGN and its channels as Affiliation Networks. In September, the newly spun-out standalone internet media company, changed its name to Snowball. com, at the same time, small entertainment website The Den merged into IGN and added non-gaming content to the growing network. Snowball held an IPO in 2000, but shed most of its properties during the dot-com bubble. In June 2005, IGN reported having 24,000,000 unique visitors per month, with 4.8 million registered users through all departments of the site, IGN is ranked among the top 200 most-visited websites according to Alexa. In September 2005, IGN was acquired by Rupert Murdochs multi-media business empire, News Corporation, IGN celebrated its 10th anniversary on January 12,2008. IGN was headquartered in the Marina Point Parkway office park in Brisbane, California, on May 25,2011, IGN sold its Direct2Drive division to Gamefly for an undisclosed amount. In 2011, IGN Entertainment acquired its rival UGO Entertainment from Hearst Corporation, ultimately, News Corp. planned to spin off IGN Entertainment as a publicly traded company, continuing a string of divestitures for digital properties it had previously acquired. Financial details regarding the purchase were not revealed, prior to its acquisition by UGO, 1UP. com had previously been owned by Ziff Davis. Soon after the acquisition, IGN announced that it would be laying off staff and closing GameSpy, 1UP. com, the role-playing video game interest website Vault Network was acquired by IGN in 1999. GameStats, a review website, was founded by IGN in 2004. GameStats includes a GPM rating system incorporates an average press score and average gamer score

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Dragon Con
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Dragon Con is a North America multigenre convention, founded in 1987, which takes place once each year in Atlanta, Georgia. It is operated by a private corporation, with the help of a 1. Dragon Con has hosted the 1990 Origins Game Fair and the 1995 North American Science Fiction Convention, Dragon Con was launched in 1987, as a project of a local science fiction and gaming group, the Dragon Alliance of Gamers and Role-Players. It was founded by a board of directors including John Bunnell, David Cody, Robert Dennis, Mike Helba, Pat Henry, and Ed Kramer. The name Dragon for the club was derived from Kramers Dragon Computer, the inaugural Dragon*Con flyers debuted at the 1986 Atlanta Worldcon, ConFederation. Within a year, Dragon*Con had been selected to be the host of the 1990 Origins convention, thomas E. Fullers Atlanta Radio Theatre Company performed H. P. Lovecrafts Call of Cthulhu, which was broadcast via radio live from onsite. The 1988 convention included guests Alan Dean Foster, Fred Saberhagen, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Gary Gygax, in 1989, it drew 2,400 fans, and the event had moved to the Omni Hotel and Convention Center. In 1990, the convention had doubled again, added a Comics Expo, hosted the Origins convention, this time with Guest of Honor Tom Clancy, and expanded to include the Atlanta Sheraton hotel. In 1991 the first Robot Battles robotic competition event was added to the list of Dragon*Con events, in 1993, Dragon*Con was the home of the Wizard Fan Awards. By 1995, when Dragon*Con hosted the North American Science Fiction Convention, attendance had grown to over 14,000 fans, in 1999, Dragon*Cons TrekTrak introduced the first Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant, an annual event that has since garnered national media attention. Kramers relationship with the convention was ended in July 2013 in a merger, at which point the name of the convention. In 2002, Dragon*Con began hosting a parade through downtown Atlanta, which ran from Centennial Olympic Park to the Marriott Marquis, in 2005, Dragon*Con raised USD $20,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Foundation. R. R. The Bloodhound Gang, Spocks Beard, and Mindless Self Indulgence, in 1998, Dragon Con established the Julie Award, in honor of Julius Schwartz, bestowed for universal achievement spanning multiple genres, selected each year by a panel of industry professionals. The inaugural recipient was science fiction and fantasy Grandmaster Ray Bradbury, the award process consists of a nomination step, where each voter can nominate one work of choice in every category, and a voting step where the nominated works are voted for to receive the award. The nominations and votes are collected electronically, participation is freely available to everyone, without any pay or requirement of membership. The finalist shortlist for the first edition of the awards was announced on August 11,2016, voting lasted until August 31,2016, with the winners announced on September 4. According to statistics provided by Georgia State University, Robinson College of Business, Dragon Con brought in over $21 million

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Atlanta, Georgia
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Atlantas economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include logistics, professional and business services, media operations, Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlantas neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the demographics, politics. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia, Creek Indians inhabited the area, standing Peachtree, a Creek village located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area in 1821. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western, the initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. After engineers surveyed various possible locations for the terminus, the zero milepost was driven into the ground in what is now Five Points. A year later, the area around the milepost had developed into a settlement, first known as Terminus, and later as Thrasherville after a merchant who built homes. By 1842, the town had six buildings and 30 residents and was renamed Marthasville to honor the Governors daughter, later, J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlantica-Pacifica, which was shortened to Atlanta. The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29,1847, by 1860, Atlantas population had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the nexus of multiple railroads in Atlanta made the city a hub for the distribution of military supplies, in 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, on November 11,1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Armys March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the citys churches and hospitals. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Atlanta was gradually rebuilt, due to the citys superior rail transportation network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgias largest city, by 1885, the founding of the Georgia School of Technology and the citys black colleges had established Atlanta as a center for higher education. In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, during the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. In three decades time, Atlantas population tripled as the city expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs

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Georgia (U.S. state)
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Georgia is a state in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1733, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies, named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2,1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 19,1861 and it was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15,1870. Georgia is the 24th largest and the 8th most populous of the 50 United States, from 2007 to 2008,14 of Georgias counties ranked among the nations 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas. Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South, Atlanta is the states capital, its most populous city and has been named a global city. Georgia is bordered to the south by Florida, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and South Carolina, to the west by Alabama, the states northern part is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains system. Georgias highest point is Brasstown Bald at 4,784 feet above sea level, Georgia is the largest state entirely east of the Mississippi River in land area. Before settlement by Europeans, Georgia was inhabited by the mound building cultures, the British colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12,1733. The colony was administered by the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America under a charter issued by King George II. The Trustees implemented a plan for the colonys settlement, known as the Oglethorpe Plan. In 1742 the colony was invaded by the Spanish during the War of Jenkins Ear, in 1752, after the government failed to renew subsidies that had helped support the colony, the Trustees turned over control to the crown. Georgia became a colony, with a governor appointed by the king. The Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence, the State of Georgias first constitution was ratified in February 1777. Georgia was the 10th state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on July 24,1778, in 1829, gold was discovered in the North Georgia mountains, which led to the Georgia Gold Rush and an established federal mint in Dahlonega, which continued its operation until 1861. The subsequent influx of white settlers put pressure on the government to land from the Cherokee Nation. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, sending many eastern Native American nations to reservations in present-day Oklahoma, including all of Georgias tribes. Despite the Supreme Courts ruling in Worcester v. Georgia that ruled U. S. states were not permitted to redraw the Indian boundaries, President Jackson and the state of Georgia ignored the ruling. In 1838, his successor, Martin Van Buren, dispatched troops to gather the Cherokee

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Jonathan Coulton
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Jonathan Coulton, often called JoCo by fans, is an American singer-songwriter, known for his songs about geek culture and his use of the Internet to draw fans. Among his most popular songs are Code Monkey, Skullcrusher Mountain, Re, Your Brains, Still Alive and his album Artificial Heart was the first to chart, eventually reaching #1 on Billboards Top Heatseekers and #125 in the Billboard 200. Coultons music tends to fit a folk style, with elements of pop. Coulton graduated in 1993 from Yale, where he was a member of the Yale Whiffenpoofs, rare topical songs include 2005s Ws Duty, which sampled President George W. Bush, and 2006s Tom Cruise Crazy. In the early days, Coultons music was discovered by podcasters, notably, podcasting early adopters Adam Curry of the Daily Source Code and The Wizards of Technology made regular use of Coultons music. In April 2006, he lent his voice to one such podcast, The Spoilers, in which he and hosts Rick Yaeger and Bill Douthett provided a 2-hour fan commentary for Raiders of the Lost Ark. He was the Contributing Troubadour at Popular Science magazine, whose September 2005 issue was accompanied by a set by Coulton called Our Bodies, Ourselves. He was also the Musical Director for The Little Gray Book Lectures, Coulton was quoted in a September 2006 interview as stating that as a result of the experiment, in some parts of the country, Id be making a decent living. Coulton wrote and performed a song titled Still Alive for the credits of Valves 2007 video game Portal. On April 1,2008, Harmonix made this available as free downloadable content for the game Rock Band. A version with Coultons vocals was included on the Orange Box Original Soundtrack. Re, Your Brains made an appearance as an egg in Left 4 Dead 2. The song has called the most influential game music. In 2011, Coulton followed up the success of Still Alive with a new song at the end of Portal 2 and he also wrote the song You Wouldnt Know for Lego Dimensions. Coulton is also known for original pieces such as Code Monkey and it was also the theme song for an animated show on G4 called Code Monkeys. His work has featured on NPRs All Things Considered. Good Morning Silicon Valley featured a link to a set to his song Re. Coulton accompanied John Hodgman on his 700 Hobo Names promotional track for Hodgmans book The Areas of My Expertise as the guitarist

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RiffTrax
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RiffTrax products are sold online and delivered by app, streaming video, and download. The site was launched by Nelson and Legend Films, now renamed Legend3D, in 2012, RiffTrax was purchased from Legend3D by Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett and RiffTrax CEO David G. Martin. As of December 2014, RiffTrax had 13 employees, but Nelson realized this initial idea was not feasible since he would be sued out of existence. Instead, the best way to distribute the commentaries would be to them independently of the films. There would be no legal or monetary restrictions to prevent Nelson from producing them, Nelson has said that he would like to bring in other guests. The enthusiasm of guest riffers for the led to the establishment of RiffTrax Presents. These include films by the Jam Handy Organization, Alfred P. Higgins Productions, Coronet Films and ACI Films, because these shorts are in the public domain, they can be downloaded with the commentary already recorded onto them. Shorts are usually released at least once, and often twice, a week In 2008, RiffTrax launched iRiffs, iRiffs users are paid 50% of the net revenue generated by their products. IRiffs differentiates from normal RiffTrax in that both serious and humorous commentaries can be uploaded, the winners of the contest were Doug Walker, Rob Walker and Brian Heinz of That Guy with the Glasses, who contributed an iRiff of The Lion King. The RiffTrax commentary they produced was for Batman Forever, the RiffTrax. com releases contain a newly recorded introduction on each episode by either Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, or Bridget Nelson and Mary Jo Pehl. A substantial percentage from the sales on the RiffTrax website goes to the cast members of MST3K. On July 20,2016, RiffTrax celebrated its tenth anniversary, as part of SF Sketchfest in San Francisco, California, Nelson, Murphy, and Corbett have appeared several times performing live riffs alongside a screening of a film. As of 2008, they have appeared three times, having riffed Daredevil and Over the Top in 2007 and Plan 9 from Outer Space in 2008, the RiffTrax crew have done live internet broadcasts on Ustream. tv, riffing public domain films and taking viewer questions. RiffTrax has teamed with NCM Fathom Events to host special one-night live RiffTrax events, an encore showing was shown on October 8 of that year. Show in theaters took place on December 16,2009, where they riffed several Christmas short films, an encore showing was shown in theaters the next day. Show took place on August 19,2010, with the trio riffing the cult classic Reefer Madness, a fourth live show riffing House on Haunted Hill, also filmed at the Belcourt, occurred on October 28,2010, with special guest Paul F. Tompkins. A fifth took place on August 17,2011, featuring the film Jack the Giant Killer, a sixth took place on August 16,2012, featuring the film, Manos, The Hands of Fate. A seventh live event took place on October 25,2012, featuring Birdemic, Shock, the live event featuring Starship Troopers took place on August 15,2013

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Molly Lewis
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Molly Lewis is an American musician who is known for her ukulele playing and who rose to prominence on the Internet. She plays both covers and original songs and her original music consists of comedic songs that deal with relevant pop culture topics. She is currently signed with DFTBA Records through which she released her first EP I Made You A CD, Lewis attracted attention by recording ukulele covers of popular songs such as Britney Spears Toxic and Lady Gagas Poker Face, then posting videos of her performances on YouTube. She also recorded videos with other Internet-based musicians, such as WadeJohnston, thedoifter, for Mothers Day in 2009, Molly recorded a cover of Two of Us by The Beatles as a duet with her mother. She uploads YouTube videos under the name of SweetAfton23, an allusion to a Scottish poet Robert Burns lyrical poem Sweet Afton and she was inspired by a rendition of Jonathan E. Spilmans 1837 musical accompaniment to the poem, as played by Chris Thile with Nickel Creek. The 23 refers to her birthday, November 23 and her version of Tom Cruise Crazy was featured on Episode 226 of the UkeCast. She is a performer at w00tstock alongside Paul and Storm, Adam Savage. She has performed with the Presidents of the United States of America, during live performances, she occasionally forgets to bring key instruments, like the kazoo from I Pity the Fool, and substitutes other things from her pocket, notably a rape whistle. In an animated video of I Pity the Fool, the kazoo solo is shown being played by a cartoon version of Mr. T. Lewis has appeared on NBCs Los Angeles show Music LA. She recorded the music for Episode 2 of Season 3 of The Legend of Neil. In fall of 2012, Lewis toured as an act for the first time as part of the Ladies of Ragnarok tour with the Doubleclicks, performing 19 concerts in the Northeast. In January 2013, Lewis toured the West Coast for the first time, also with the Doubleclicks, performing nine shows in California, both tours were sponsored by fans who could buy postcards or T-shirts to help the musicians cover costs. Her song It All Makes Sense at the End is an allusion to the fact that her Wikipedia article was deleted in 2009 for not being notable enough and her cover of Coultons Tom Cruise Crazy earned Ukulele Hunts 2007 Ukulele Video of the Year for 2007. That video brought her to the attention of Coulton, who has invited her to perform with him and with Paul. She won the edition of Quick Stop Entertainments Masters of Song Fu competition, defeated 16 other artists, including Hank Green and Paul. I Made You a CD, But I Eated It The Same Old Songs, Thanksgiving Versus Christmas Official Website Mollys YouTube Channel Molly on Show X Thanksgiving Versus Christmas

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Paul and Storm
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Paul and Storm are an Arlington, Virginia-based comedic musical duo consisting of Paul Sabourin and Greg Storm DiCostanzo. They are best known for their humorous songs about geek culture and they are favorites of Dr. Demento and regular radio guests on the The Bob and Tom Show. They tour regularly with Jonathan Coulton, singing vocals for a number of his songs. Coulton has also appeared on stage to do backup for Paul, for 12 years Sabourin and DiCostanzo were one half of the a cappella comedy band Da Vincis Notebook. When that group went on their Moxy Früvous-style hiatus, in 2004 the two out on their own, with Paul playing keyboard and penny whistle and Storm on the guitar. The EP was titled Shame and Cookie Dough, in 2005, the duo released Opening Band, their first album release. The title stems from the track off the album, an idea thought up by Storm after their experience as being the opening act. Groovelily performed as Paul and Storms back-up band at the 2005 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, the album features a number of Rejected Commercial Jingles as well as a commentary track for two of the albums songs. Their second album News to Us was recorded week by week for the Bob, many of the tracks on the album feature the radio hosts introducing each song, also there is the audible trademark Bob and Tom laughter on the tracks dubbed as the On-Air versions. At the end of the album, the duo placed the version of most of the tracks as well so that listeners could have a more traditional album experience. The song Your Love Is on the album was co-written by Jonathan Coulton, in 2007 their third full-length studio album Gumbo Pants was released. This album features their fan favorite, and often live concert closing track The Captains Wifes Lament as well as fan favorites such as Count to Ten. It also featured a number of short tracks that were titled One Sentence Songs. In 2010 after a three-year lapse between albums, the duo released their studio album Do You Like Star Wars. The album is a collection of songs that the duo had released one by one in the years following Gumbo Pants and it includes concert favorites such as Nun Fight, Cruel, Cruel Moon, and Frogger. A number of the released on this album were written for Quick Stop Entertainments Masters of Song Fu contest. In 2013, their web series Learning Town began on the YouTube channel Geek & Sundry and their song Another Irish Drinking Song was featured in the 2013 film Despicable Me 2 as performed by the Minions. At the end of 2013, they successfully crowdfunded a project in support of their new album, Paul and Storm have toured all around the United States as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom

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Garfunkel and Oates
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Garfunkel and Oates is an American comedy–folk duo from Los Angeles, California, consisting of actress–songwriters Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci. The band name is derived from two famous rock-and-roll second bananas, Art Garfunkel and John Oates, the two met at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles, where they were introduced to one another by comic Doug Benson. The duo was formed when they started working together to adapt Imaginary Larry, Lindhome is from Coudersport, Pennsylvania, Micucci is from Nazareth, Pennsylvania. In February 2009, the Garfunkel and Oates song Fuck You was featured in the Scrubs episode My Lawyers in Love, on December 14,2009, Garfunkel and Oates were on The Jay Leno Show to perform their song Year End Letter. On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, they performed Pregnant Women Are Smug on March 12,2010, in late October 2010, they performed Weed Card on The Tonight Show. In 2010 they were featured on the track These Girls, on Childish Gambinos album Culdesac, in 2011, Garfunkel and Oates signed a deal with HBO for a pilot for their own show. Lindhome has described it as Glee with dick jokes, HBO later decided not to go forward with the show, but in August 2012, HBO released the pilot as five webisodes through its online service. On October 7,2011, they released David Wain Is Sexy, the song is available on the extras on the DVD of Wainy Days. On June 8,2012, Comedy Central featured an episode of The Half Hour with Garfunkel and Oates. On June 25,2013, the duo released their music video The Loophole, a song about Christian girls retaining their virginity by performing anal sex, as of March 2017, it was the most watched video on their channel, with over 8 million views. On September 30,2013, IFC network green-lit Garfunkel and Oates, the show premiered on August 7,2014 and was cancelled on 3 March 2015. Afterwards the series was released on Netflix, in The Romance Resonance, an episode of the TV sitcom The Big Bang Theory, the character Howard plays the song If I Didnt Have You, written by Garfunkel and Oates, for his wife Bernadette. Micucci also has a role in the series. In 2014, Garfunkel and Oates was listed on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels and it features live performances from their album Secretions, with them playing some old favorites. The music video portion of the special, which featured the song Frozen Lullaby, earned them the Emmy nomination for outstanding original music and lyrics

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Neil Innes
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Neil James Innes is an English writer, comedian and musician, best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python, and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles. Innes was born in Danbury, Essex and he spent much of his childhood with his parents and older brother Iain in post-war Germany during his Scottish fathers military assignment as a warrant officer. He took piano lessons from age 7 to 14 and taught himself to play guitar and his parents were supportive of their sons interests. His father showed some ability as well, he frequently drew. Innes later attended Thorpe Grammar School and the Norwich School of Art, because Norwich lacked a particular art curriculum in which he was interested, he transferred to Goldsmiths, where he studied drama. At Goldsmiths he met Yvonne Catherine Hilton, whom he married on 3 March 1966 and they have three sons, Miles, Luke, and Barney. Innes graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from Goldsmiths in 1966, Innes met Vivian Stanshall at the Central School of Art, where both studied drawing. Together they wrote most of the songs, including Im the Urban Spaceman, their sole hit, and Death Cab for Cutie. Innes won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Novel Song in 1968 for Im the Urban Spaceman, unfortunately for them, by the time their sole album Lucky Planet was released in 1970, the members had already disbanded and were moving on to other projects. In the mid-1970s, Innes became closely associated with the TV series Monty Pythons Flying Circus and he played a major role in performing and writing songs and sketches for the final series in 1974. He wrote a squib of a song called George III for the episode The Golden Age of Ballooning, which was sung by The Flirtations and he also wrote the song When Does a Dream Begin. Used in Anything Goes, The Light Entertainment War and he is one of only two non-Pythons to ever be credited writers for the TV series, the other being Douglas Adams. He appeared on stage with the Pythons in New York City in 1976 and he was introduced as Raymond Scum. After his introduction he told the audience, Ive suffered for my music, in 1980 he travelled to the States with the Pythons again, subsequently appearing in Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. He performed the songs How Sweet to Be an Idiot and Im the Urban Spaceman and he also appeared as one of the singing Bruces in the Philosopher Sketch and as a Church Policeman in that sketch. Innes wrote original songs for the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, such as Knights of the Round Table and he appeared in the film as a head-bashing monk, the serf crushed by the giant wooden rabbit, and the leader of Sir Robins minstrels. He also had a role in Terry Gilliams Jabberwocky. His collaborations with Monty Python and other artists were documented in the musical film The Seventh Python, after Python finished its original run on UK television, Innes joined with Pythons Eric Idle on the series Rutland Weekend Television

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Dana Snyder
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Dana Snyder is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and voice actor. He is known for voicing Master Shake on Aqua Teen Hunger Force and he currently plays Dr. Colosso on Nickelodeons comedy The Thundermans Snyder was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on November 14,1973 and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. He credits Don Rickles, Rip Taylor, and Phil Silvers as childhood influences, Snyder graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1992 and he graduated with a BFA from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University, Missouri in 1996. Snyder was hired to voice Master Shake on Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Snyder provided the voice of Gazpacho on Chowder, Todd and Benny Lee on the G4TV show Code Monkeys, The Alchemist on The Venture Bros. and Granny Cuyler on Squidbillies. He voices Leonard the Koala in The Penguins of Madagascar and plays a teacher named Mr. Baldwin on the Disney series Fish Hooks and he played Alistair in Open Season 3. Snyder provided the voices of Sam as well as Cold Fusion Reactor Dad on the web series Suicide by Side and he narrated the Adult Swim web series Sipes Stories that he co-produced with Andy Sipes. He has starred on Adventure Time as the Ancient Sleeping Magi of Life Giving from the episode Little Dude in the fifth season and he played the voice of Belcitane within the White Knight Chronicles, and the White Knight Chronicles II. He also shows up in the web series Bravest Warriors in season 2 episode 6 and he voices the recurring character McSweats in the Disney XD animated series Pickle and Peanut. He currently plays Dr. Colosso on Nickelodeons comedy The Thundermans as well as Graballa the Hutt on the Disney XD animated series Lego Star Wars, on April 15,2010, Snyder and Dave Willis went on a multi-city tour called Dave & Dana, Stars of Aqua Teen. In June 2010, he appeared as Max Bialystock in the Lyceum Theatres production of Mel Brooks The Producers in Arrow Rock, in February and March 2011, he again played Max Bialystock in The Producers at the Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach Florida. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Cleveland Play House, Snyder was also a guest performer during several performances of the Atlanta-based burlesque revue Dames Aflame in 2010 and 2012. Snyder has made guest appearances on ER, Brothers and Sisters, Snyder also appeared in Saul of the Mole Men, The Young Persons Guide to History, and Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell. He guest appeared on the Christian live action television show Come On Over, snydecast with Ken Plumey Plume, which is a free podcast. The first episode of the show appeared on the internet on January 11,2006, the show was initially produced out of IGN and is produced out of Fred Entertainment. The show originally followed a weekly episode distribution but has been sporadic in later years. In addition to Snyder and Plume, guests have included Doc Hammer, Paul Sabourin, in late 2013, Dana began co-hosting the podcast Drunk on Disney with Guy Hutchinson, and Bart Scott, author of Ears of Steel. The podcast centers around Disney parks, Disney trips, and Disney memories, all while the make a Disney-themed cocktail. He married Christine Sweety Snyder in August 2005 and they have one daughter born in June 2014

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Paul Dini
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Paul Dini is an American writer and producer who works in the television and comic book industries. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros, animation/DC Comics animated series, including Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman, The Animated Series, Superman, The Animated Series, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond, and Duck Dodgers. He developed and scripted Krypto the Superdog and contributed scripts to Transformers, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Animation in early 2004, Dini went on to write and story edit the popular ABC adventure series Lost. He has written a number of books for DC Comics, including Harley Quinn and Superman. Fall 2010 saw the debut of Tower Prep, a new live action/drama series Dini created for Cartoon Network. M. A. S. H, Paul Dini was born in New York City, the son of an advertising executive, Robert Dini, and his wife. He attended Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California on an art scholarship and he attended Emerson College in Boston, where he earned a BFA degree in creative writing. During college, he began doing freelance animation scripts for Filmation, in 1984, he was hired to work for George Lucas on several of his animation projects. Dini later returned to the Star Wars universe in 2007 to script episodes of Star Wars. He wrote an episode of the Generation One Transformers cartoon series, The Dweller in The Depths, joe cartoon called Jungle Trap and contributed to various episodes of the Star Wars, Ewoks animated series, several of which included rare appearances from the Empire. He also wrote the Jem episode Music Is Magic for the second season. In 1989, he was hired at Warner Bros, Animation to work on Tiny Toon Adventures. Later, he moved onto Batman, The Animated Series, where he worked as a writer, producer and editor and he continued working with WB animation, working on a number of internal projects, including Krypto the Superdog and Duck Dodgers, until 2004. In 1989 and again in 1990, he contributed scripts to the television horror anthology series Monsters, One Wolfs Family. He has earned five Emmy awards for his animation work, in a related effort, Dini was the co-author with Chip Kidd of Batman Animated, a 1998 non-fiction coffee table book about the animated Batman franchise. Harley Quinn was integrated into the mainstream DC Comics continuity in the Batman, a hardcover collection of the Dini and Ross stories was published in 2005 under the title The Worlds Greatest Super-Heroes. Best known among Dinis original creations is Jingle Belle, the rebellious daughter of Santa Claus. Dini created Sheriff Ida Red, the cowgirl star of a series of books set in Dinis mythical town of Mutant. He collaborated with Kevin Smith on Clerks, The Animated Series and he and Bruce Timm collaborated on Harley and Ivy limited series for DC in 2004

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Peter Sanderson
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Peter Sanderson, Jr. is a comic book critic and historian, as well as an instructor/lecturer in the New York area concerning the study of graphic novels/comic books as literature. As a teenager, and later, at Columbia University, Sandersons first involvement in the field was as a letterhack. His missives impressed DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz enough for Schwartz expand the letter columns in some titles to a second, in the early 1980s Sanderson wrote for comic fanzines. From there, Sanderson broke into the book industry proper, he was first hired by DC Comics. His research was used by Len Wein to write Whos Who in the DC Universe, Sanderson then went to work for Marvel as their first archivist, and contributed as a researcher on the various Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe series in the 1980s and early 1990s. Sanderson was also the writer of the Marvel Saga and Wolverine Saga limited series, the text was supplemented by individual panels excerpted from the comic books that served as Sandersons sources. He writes a column entitled Comics in Context, which is a weekly series of critical essays on comics, cartoon art. The series started on July 8,2003 on the website IGN, after a seventeen-month hiatus, Comics in Context returned to the newly rebranded A Site Called Fred on January 19,2010. Keeping the World Strange, A Planetary Guide, sequart Research & Literacy Organization,2011. The 1960s Batman TV Series from Comics to Screen, gotham City 14 Miles,14 Essays on Why the 1960s Batman TV Series Matters. Sequart Research & Literacy Organization,2010, bringing Light to the World, Watchmen from Hiroshima to Manhattan. Minutes to Midnight, Twelve Essays on Watchmen, sequart Research & Literacy Organization,2010. Peter Sanderson at the Comic Book DB Comics in Context

Kenneth Plume
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Kenneth Plumey Plume is an American author, broadcaster, film producer and owner of Fred Entertainment. Plume wrote the book Theres a Zombie in My Treehouse. the book was announced at the Film Fest and on the Apocalypse Rising track at DragonCon in 2008. The book was paid by Plume to be published by Lulu Inc. the same year, the book details the sto

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Ken Plume at DragonCon 2014 in Atlanta

Alexa Internet
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Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based company that provides commercial web traffic data and analytics. It is an owned subsidiary of Amazon. com. Founded as an independent company in 1996, Alexa was acquired by Amazon in 1999 and its toolbar collects data on browsing behavior and transmits them to the Alexa website, where they are stored and an

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Alexa Internet, Inc.

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2014 screenshot of Alexa.com home page

Kevin Smith
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Kevin Patrick Smith is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, public speaker, comic book writer, author, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the comedy film Clerks, which he wrote, directed, co-produced. Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in Smiths follow-up films Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back which were set

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Smith at the Montclair Film Festival, 2014

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Smith at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival

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Smith at the 2008 Comic-Con convention

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Smith and the cast of Comic Book Men at the New York Comic Con.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
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It focuses on the two eponymous characters, played respectively by Jason Mewes and Smith. The film features a number of cameo appearances by famous actors and directors. The film was a commercial success, grossing $33.8 million worldwide from a $22 million budget. Five years later and following the failure of Jersey Girl, Smith reconsidered and dec

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Theatrical release poster

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Music from the Dimension Motion Picture Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

SModcast
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SModcast is a weekly podcast featuring filmmaker Kevin Smith and his long-time producing partner Scott Mosier, although guests are occasionally featured. Released each Sunday night/Monday morning, the episodes are generally one hour in length and feature Smith and Mosier discussing current events, the name was derived from taking the first letters

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SModcast

Ain't It Cool News
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Aint It Cool News was launched in 1996, and its name is attributed to a quote from John Travoltas character in the film Broken Arrow. Knowles began surfing the Internet while recovering from an accident in 1994. He spent a lot of time in newsgroups exchanging gossip and rumors about upcoming films, a principal offering was Knowless colorful movie r

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A screenshot of the home page

Chris Ryall
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Christopher Chris Ryall is best known as the Chief Creative Officer and Editor-in-Chief of IDW Publishing, and as a writer in the comic book industry. In 2002, Ryall was hired by filmmaker Kevin Smith to run the entertainment-based MoviePoopShoot. com, the site originally appeared in Smiths movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, as a parody site. R

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Ryall at the 2013 New York Comic Con

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Chris Ryall (l.) with Ashley Wood (r.)

IDW Publishing
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IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books, graphic novels, art books and comic strip collections. The company was founded as the division of Idea and Design Works. The company is perhaps best known for its comic book adaptations of movies. In 2000, Idea and Design Works formed its publishing division, IDW Publishing and in 2007, Two of

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Cover to Ghostbusters #2, one of the licensed properties published by IDW. Art by Nick Runge.

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IDW Publishing

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The IDW "Creator Visions" panel at the 2013 New York Comic Con. From left to right: writers Sidney Friedfertig, Gary Gerani, Adam Knave, Dan Goldman, M. Zachary Sherman, Jeff Kline and Jason Enright. At the podium is IDW Vice President of Marketing Dirk Wood.

IGN Film
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The website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson and launched on September 29,1996. It focuses on games, films, television, comics, technology, the company is located in San Franciscos SOMA district in California, United States. Originally a network of websites, IGN is now distributed on mobile platforms, console programs on the

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IGN Entertainment's former headquarters in Brisbane, California.

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IGN Entertainment Inc.

Dragon Con
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Dragon Con is a North America multigenre convention, founded in 1987, which takes place once each year in Atlanta, Georgia. It is operated by a private corporation, with the help of a 1. Dragon Con has hosted the 1990 Origins Game Fair and the 1995 North American Science Fiction Convention, Dragon Con was launched in 1987, as a project of a local s

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A cosplayer dressed as a Spartan from the movie 300 at the 2007 Dragon Con parade.

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Dragon Con

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Artist Don Rosa at the artist area of Dragon Con in 2009

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A 2011 Dragon*Con Panel

Atlanta, Georgia
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In

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From top to bottom left to right: Atlanta skyline seen from Buckhead, the Fox Theatre, the Georgia State Capitol, Centennial Olympic Park, Millennium Gate, the Canopy Walk, the Georgia Aquarium, The Phoenix statue, and the Midtown skyline

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Marietta Street, 1864

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Atlanta in ruins during the Civil War, 1864

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In 1907, Peachtree Street, the main street of Atlanta, was busy with streetcars and automobiles.

Georgia (U.S. state)
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Georgia is a state in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1733, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies, named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2,1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 19,1861 and it was the last state to

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A girl spinner in a Georgia cotton mill, 1909.

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Jekyll Island

Jonathan Coulton
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Jonathan Coulton, often called JoCo by fans, is an American singer-songwriter, known for his songs about geek culture and his use of the Internet to draw fans. Among his most popular songs are Code Monkey, Skullcrusher Mountain, Re, Your Brains, Still Alive and his album Artificial Heart was the first to chart, eventually reaching #1 on Billboards

RiffTrax
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RiffTrax products are sold online and delivered by app, streaming video, and download. The site was launched by Nelson and Legend Films, now renamed Legend3D, in 2012, RiffTrax was purchased from Legend3D by Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett and RiffTrax CEO David G. Martin. As of December 2014, RiffTrax had 13 employees, but Nelson rea

Molly Lewis
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Molly Lewis is an American musician who is known for her ukulele playing and who rose to prominence on the Internet. She plays both covers and original songs and her original music consists of comedic songs that deal with relevant pop culture topics. She is currently signed with DFTBA Records through which she released her first EP I Made You A CD,

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Molly Lewis

Paul and Storm
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Paul and Storm are an Arlington, Virginia-based comedic musical duo consisting of Paul Sabourin and Greg Storm DiCostanzo. They are best known for their humorous songs about geek culture and they are favorites of Dr. Demento and regular radio guests on the The Bob and Tom Show. They tour regularly with Jonathan Coulton, singing vocals for a number

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Paul and Storm at PAX 09

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Paul and Storm in 2013

Garfunkel and Oates
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Garfunkel and Oates is an American comedy–folk duo from Los Angeles, California, consisting of actress–songwriters Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci. The band name is derived from two famous rock-and-roll second bananas, Art Garfunkel and John Oates, the two met at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles, where they were introduced to one

Neil Innes
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Neil James Innes is an English writer, comedian and musician, best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python, and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles. Innes was born in Danbury, Essex and he spent much of his childhood with his parents and older brother Iain in post-war Germany during his Scottish fathers militar

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Innes at the premiere of The Seventh Python

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The Rutles

Dana Snyder
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Dana Snyder is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and voice actor. He is known for voicing Master Shake on Aqua Teen Hunger Force and he currently plays Dr. Colosso on Nickelodeons comedy The Thundermans Snyder was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on November 14,1973 and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. He credits Don Rickles, Rip Taylor,

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Snyder at Florida SuperCon

Paul Dini
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Paul Dini is an American writer and producer who works in the television and comic book industries. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros, animation/DC Comics animated series, including Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman, The Animated Series, Superman, The Animated Series, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond, and

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Paul Dini at the 2007 Comic Con.

Peter Sanderson
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Peter Sanderson, Jr. is a comic book critic and historian, as well as an instructor/lecturer in the New York area concerning the study of graphic novels/comic books as literature. As a teenager, and later, at Columbia University, Sandersons first involvement in the field was as a letterhack. His missives impressed DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz e